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I want to like Guayota, but it won’t let me. From never knowing when to stop the exposition to tossing me to an entirely different area when I’ve spent minutes working on a puzzle, Guayota actively does what it can to prevent me from having a good time. Presentation The game starts well, with a charming art style and a soft-spoken narrator. There’s an air of mystery that sets up the adventure quite well at first. Sadly, the game goes from mysterious and evocative to boring really fast. The narrator won’t stop talking, and by the time I get to…

Image: Metamorphosis Games Gestalt: Steam & Cinder is captivating while it lasts, but it’s over before you know it. | Published: Aug 28, 2024 04:45 pm Gestalt: Steam & Cinder is an impressive, grim, steampunk game with marvelous pixel art that blends modern gaming and retro graphics. Although the game fails to deliver an experience as long as usually expected from games of its genre, Gestalt manages to deliver a fun journey in a memorable Steampunk world. Visuals and Aesthetics Image: Metamorphosis Games From the start of the game, it’s clear that Gestalt: Steam & Cinder is a stunning work…

For a growing part of the gaming audience, esports does not start with a match schedule or a tournament bracket. It starts with a stream. A notification pops up. A familiar face goes live. A game is already in progress. Viewers join mid-round, stay for a while, then drift away. This streaming-first habit has reshaped how people follow competitive gaming, and it has quietly created the conditions where esports betting feels natural rather than forced. Esports betting did not grow by copying traditional sports models. It grew by adapting to how people already consume streams. Watching Comes Before Planning Streaming…

Image: 4Players-Studio Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Buckle up. Retronika is a hoverbike VR game that combines shooter and racing elements. Read on for our review. You have fallen into a wormhole and are stranded on the planet Retronika. Unfortunately, only robots live here, and they have a strong dislike for the human species. With the help of your trusty robo-companion, you hop on a hoverbike and complete missions to earn money and find a way and portal out of this planet. Retronika: Review in…

If Ichicolumn, Idea Factory International, and Otomate’s Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights is any indication of things to come in otome games in 2026, we are in for a very good year indeed. This is a fantastic visual novel that has it all. The character designs are great. The story is fun. It’s both dramatic and hilarious. As for characters, I think the bachelors will easily win folks over, the supporting cast actually has personality, and the heroine is strong and smart. It’s just wonderful. Temirana is a kingdom with, well, a lot of issues. There’s a…

Street Gods, one of two Norse mythology-inspired VR roguelites coming to Meta Quest in December, emphasizes style and power fantasy over any real impactful combat.Developer Soul Assembly has a long history with combat-heavy VR titles, like the Drop Dead series, Last Stand, Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister. While it occasionally dabbles in other genres, like working on​ Just Dance VR, action games are its bread and butter. All the aforementioned games, primarily shooters mind you, received mostly the same critical response. Straightforward, albeit shallow, and fun to play with friends.The FactsWhat is it?: A Norse mythology-based roguelitePlatforms: Meta Quest 3/3S (reviewed…

The Pimax 8K X impressed us back in 2020 by offering the highest resolution visuals and widest field of view that we’d ever seen on a VR headset. The problem we encountered with that headset, though, is that it was a lot of faff to set up correctly, requiring Vive base stations and controllers to function, not to mention a beast of a gaming PC. The Pimax Crystal brings the promise of a more streamlined experience, with inside-out tracking, Pimax’s own controllers and even a tether-fee standalone mode (like the Quest 2) – but that’s something yet to be implemented.…

The Oculus Quest and Quest 2 changed the game for VR, taking the medium from the prohibitively expensive and cumbersome realm of tethered PC headsets, and propelling it into the mainstream. When the Meta Quest 2 launched, amidst the pandemic, the timing was perfect. Everyone was looking for an escape, and what better way than investing in a VR headset for the first time? Now, millions of people have already experienced the joys of VR gaming, and Meta is looking to replicate its success in a new frontier – mixed reality, or MR. It’s not just MR that Meta Quest…

Level-5 is officially two for two when it comes to games that successfully survived development hell. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time turned out exceptional, even with so many ideas packed into it. Now that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is here, it feels a bit like each mode might be one direction the final game could have took and Level-5 decided to finish them all and toss them in together. While it didn’t turn out as wonderfully as the latest Fantasy Life, it’s far better than I expected.  There are a lot of modes in Inazuma Eleven: Victory…

Image: Attack of the Fanboy Anger Foot kicks down the door of traditional shooters with its quirky humor and relentless, foot-stomping action. | Published: Aug 28, 2024 10:40 pm I didn’t know what to expect when I started playing Anger Foot, but I was pleasantly surprised. In a genre that struggles to be original, Anger Foot manages to come up with a unique visual style and adrenaline-fueled gameplay. The result is a fun shooter with a wicked sense of humor that manages to stand out. The Heart-Pounding Core Image: Free Lives Anger Foot’s gameplay is not necessarily unique. It’s a…